Heavenly Cinnamon Stars From The Vanilla Sky

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 120 g butter, softened
• 120 g sugar
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 300 g all-purpose flour (known as 'maida' in hindi)
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon, powdered
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• icing sugar, for dusting

Recipe

• 1 put butter in a mixing bowl.
• 2 add sugar and cream well.
• 3 add eggs, one at a time, mixing in nicely.
• 4 fold in flour and cinnamon powder.
• 5 add vanilla essence.
• 6 mix well.
• 7 cover.
• 8 refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• 9 remove from refrigerator.
• 10 lightly dust a working table with flour.
• 11 roll out the refrigerated mixture with the help of a rolling pin (should be similar in size to a flour tortilla/ an indian flatbread,i. e.,roti).
• 12 using a star-shaped cookie cutter, cut out stars from the rolled out dough.
• 13 carefully lift the stars and place on a greased baking tray.
• 14 bake for 15 minutes at 150 degrees c.
• 15 allow to cool completely.
• 16 dust with icing sugar.
• 17 serve or pack into your bag of christmas goodies or add to your cookie tray or share them with your best friend/neighbour-there's no limit to what you can do with a good cookie; after all, even the sky is limitless for its glorious stars.